I'm not keen on the mouse action either but it's so easy to kill people in slow motion it hasn't been an issue. And yeah, the in game movies do look just like the game play which is very good. I guess I was put off initially by the opening videos. Glares, reflections, artefacts, varied blurriness and colour depth, for some reason it reminded me of Abrams Start Trek (which I actually liked).
On the bad side: I remember now my one problem with Max Payne franchise, it's more like a graphic novel, a cheesy one at that, then about any game I've played. I don't care about storys in games too much for me it's about gameplay. Even though I've started over again I still can't skip the story line vids, i'm finding it rather tedious considering the gameplay isn't great. I think the slow motion kill em thing was done better in Fear, what 4-5 years ago?
I hope the story picks up, I'm going to try and slog through it but it must be at least 1:1 vids to game play and that doesn't bode well for a 10 hour game.
$60 for 5 hours of sub par shooting.. man I compare that to 1500 hours in Bad Company, a lot of it very exciting.